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Jeb Stuart Magruder An aide to Nixon chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, Magruder directed the White House "plumbers" efforts to collect intelligence on Nixon's Democratic opponents. While serving as deputy director for the Committee for the Re-election of the President, Magruder ordered the first break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in May 1972. When the wiretaps did not produce satisfactory results, Magruder ordered a second break-in on June 17, 1972, that ended with the burglars' arrest. In 1973, Magruder began cooperating with federal prosecutors and eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. He spent seven months in prison. Magruder wrote "An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate" in 1974 and "From Power to Peace" in 1976. After his release from prison in 1976, Magruder earned a master's degree in divinity from the Princeton Theological Seminary and served as a minister in California, Ohio and Kentucky. Magruder retired from active ministry in 1998 to become a consultant in Dallas. |
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